Organize the Course Home
In this article, you can read what you can find and how you can organize the ‘Course Home’ of your course. When you click on a course on your personal homepage you will be directed to the ‘Course Home’ of said course: the course homepage. ‘Course Home’ contains a few predetermined widgets. Discussed below are
Adjust content availability
This article explains how to adjust content availability. With this, you can set the start and end dates for when a student has access to course content. When you specify a start, end, or submission date for course content, it will appear in the Upcoming Events and Agenda in the Calendar Tool. It is possible
What files can be downloaded by students?
Documents, images, and videos uploaded to Brightspace can be viewed inline by students. To display documents inline, the Document Conversion Service converts documents uploaded to Content into PDFs. Students can also download files from course Content, including entire Units. When students download documents, they are saved in their native file formats. The following filetypes cannot
View as a student
In Brightspace, instructors can view the course from a student’s perspective. This allows you to see what students see when they access the course. Use this tool to check if your course content is clear or to test aspects like how grade calculations appear to students in the Gradebook. The ‘View as Learner’ option in
Content visibility
In Brightspace, you can adjust the visibility of a part of the course content. This makes it possible to make part of the content not visible to students if you want the students not to see that part yet. Option 1: content page Option 2: directly in the file 2. Select the ‘Content’ and press
Course visibility
A course is visible to students by default in their course overview if they are enrolled in the course. The course and course content open on the course start date. This start date is set to two weeks before the start of the term and is visible to students. All published content is visible to
Logging in and out
Manual logging in in Brightspace If you have trouble logging in: Manual logging out in Brightspace
How do I add a course to my homepage?
To make a course visible on your homepage, you have to pin it under My Courses, following the following instructions. When you are enrolled into 20 courses or more, the search bar will appear. When you are enrolled within several faculties or semesters, the Sort and Filter option will be available to you. Click on
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